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And by that I mean the most artistic.


पीड़ा
प्यार
जीवन
चुम्बन
नर्क
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आदमी
दुनिया
Each character reminds me of a wrought iron fence, with metal vines and leaves decorating in a random, yet consistent, style.
Here are the words I put through the translator:
Pain, love, life, kiss, hell, woman, man, and world.

I'm currently learning 中国 characters but I may end up learning Hindi next.
English characters are pretty utilitarian in my opinion. Though the use and meaning of the words can be very artistic the basic structure isn't as interesting, artistically.
If you know of a language that is also just a beautiful as hindi, or a single character you enjoy from a language, please try to copy and paste it into this thread, and make the font big. 谢谢!

From a technical standpoint, i hear Korean text is one of the most sophisticated and intuitive texts around.

Isaac wrote:English characters ...

you mean Latin characters.

As a student of Japaneese I'm a bit partial to it, myself. I find the blend of Chinese and less complex-looking kana syllables to be far easier on the eyes than the oversaturated look of Chinese writing. Chinese also seems a bit too sharp and jagged, and the fact that there are traditional and simplified characters only seems to complicate things further.

One Japanese band I like has a particularly lovely looking name: 凛として時雨

Floyd - yes thank you.
Roid - Interesting!
To firewheel,
My friend who's also taking Chinese is amazed how much more difficult Chinese is for him to learn in comparison to Japanese; a language he's been studying for a few years. Though I don't think the characters are as much of a problem as the tones, to him. Personally I think Chinese is lots of fun.

Hey you guys, check out Thai!

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เกลียด
ความ ตาย
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Is that cool or what?

The appearance of Chinese characters depends heavily on the \"font\", so to speak. At English-character size they normally do look pretty busy/jagged (especially traditional-style characters), but the calligraphical style doesn't.

Sirius wrote:The appearance of Chinese characters depends heavily on the "font", so to speak. At English-character size they normally do look pretty busy/jagged (especially traditional-style characters), but the calligraphical style doesn't.

餐 cãn

we call that \"Tribal\" in this country.

Spidey wrote:

Hahah. You did!

As a Korean learner, I can agree that Korean is a very scientific and technical language. It's almost like someone turned Mathematics into a language (which is pretty much why it was invented as a replacement to difficult Chinese characters)

That sounds interesting PJB.

That being said, still around 10,000 Chinese characters (traditional chinese - not simplified) are taught in Korean schools.